Courtyard Retaining Wall With Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-east
COURTYARD RETAINING WALL WITH DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING FORD HOUSE TO NORTH-EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055221
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Courtyard Retaining Wall With Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-east
- Statutory Address:
- COURTYARD RETAINING WALL WITH DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING FORD HOUSE TO NORTH-EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055221
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Courtyard Retaining Wall With Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-east
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURTYARD RETAINING WALL WITH DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING FORD HOUSE TO NORTH-EAST
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COURTYARD RETAINING WALL WITH DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING FORD HOUSE TO NORTH-EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41286 13910
Details
SJ 4013-4113 FORD C.P. FORD
13/60 Courtyard retaining wall - with dovecote and attached outbuildings adjoining Ford House to north-east
GV II
Courtyard retaining wall and probable former dovecote with attached outbuildings. Early C18. Red brick wall with high stepped plinth to south-east side and chamfered red sandstone coping; approximately 26 metres long and 2 metres high; blocked segmental-headed doorway adjacent to house. Probable dovecote incorporated in wall approximately 2/3 of the way along its length: red brick with pyramidal slate roof; 2 storeys; high stepped plinth to south-east, and dentil brick eaves cornice; north-west front: first-floor louvred square opening with segmental relieving arch and ground-floor segmental-headed boarded door off-centre to left; small low wing projecting at left with stone-coped parapeted gable and segmental-headed boarded loft door to front; right-hand return front of dovecote with segmental- headed boarded loft door and pair of low segmental-headed ground-floor doorways with flanking small square openings, one to left with stone ledge, and pair of small segmental-headed openings above. Lean-to outbuilding adjoining dovecote to north-east with lean-to corrugated iron roof, and 2 windows and door to front. Interior of dovecote not inspected. The dovecote and retaining wall form one side of a service courtyard to the north-west of Ford House (qv). V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.226.
Listing NGR: SJ4128613910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 226
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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